Health · Zimbabwe
Yearly data from 1960 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Zimbabwe's population, male (% of total population) was 47.71% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.42 percentage points from 47.3% in 2015.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 47.71% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 47.47% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 47.3% | 2015 |
| Highest | 49.45% | 1960 |
| Lowest | 47.24% | 2013 |
| Average since 2016 | 47.51% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 49.45% | 1960 |
Over five years it is up 0.24 percentage points from 47.47% in 2020. Since 1960 it is down 1.74 percentage points from 49.45% in 1960.
In 2025, Zimbabwe's population, male (% of total population) rose 0.05 percentage points on 2024 (from 47.67% to 47.71%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.04 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.81 percentage points in 1981 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.56 percentage points in 1978. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.04 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 99% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
Extending that straight line gives about 47.81% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.07%, against 0.1% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
In 2025, Zimbabwe had the 193rd highest value of the 217 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 47.71% | 2025 |
| World | 50.27% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 49.85% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 50.78% | 2025 |
Male population is the percentage of the population that is male. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Population, male (% of total population) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 47.71 |
| 2024 | 47.67 |
| 2023 | 47.62 |
| 2022 | 47.56 |
| 2021 | 47.51 |
| 2020 | 47.47 |
| 2019 | 47.43 |
| 2018 | 47.39 |
| 2017 | 47.36 |
| 2016 | 47.33 |
| 2015 | 47.3 |
| 2014 | 47.27 |
| 2013 | 47.24 |
| 2012 | 47.27 |
| 2011 | 47.33 |
| 2010 | 47.36 |
| 2009 | 47.37 |
| 2008 | 47.38 |
| 2007 | 47.4 |
| 2006 | 47.39 |
| 2005 | 47.39 |
| 2004 | 47.45 |
| 2003 | 47.48 |
| 2002 | 47.49 |
| 2001 | 47.52 |
| 2000 | 47.59 |
| 1999 | 47.65 |
| 1998 | 47.63 |
| 1997 | 47.58 |
| 1996 | 47.54 |
| 1995 | 47.52 |
| 1994 | 47.61 |
| 1993 | 47.8 |
| 1992 | 48.22 |
| 1991 | 48.53 |
| 1990 | 48.55 |
| 1989 | 48.58 |
| 1988 | 48.63 |
| 1987 | 48.77 |
| 1986 | 48.89 |
| 1985 | 48.93 |
| 1984 | 48.97 |
| 1983 | 49 |
| 1982 | 48.94 |
| 1981 | 48.84 |
| 1980 | 48.03 |
| 1979 | 47.33 |
| 1978 | 47.85 |
| 1977 | 48.41 |
| 1976 | 48.65 |
| 1975 | 48.76 |
| 1974 | 48.84 |
| 1973 | 48.89 |
| 1972 | 48.96 |
| 1971 | 49.04 |
| 1970 | 49.14 |
| 1969 | 49.2 |
| 1968 | 49.23 |
| 1967 | 49.25 |
| 1966 | 49.28 |
| 1965 | 49.31 |
| 1964 | 49.34 |
| 1963 | 49.36 |
| 1962 | 49.39 |
| 1961 | 49.42 |
| 1960 | 49.45 |
Every indicator for Zimbabwe is on the Zimbabwe data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SP.POP.TOTL.MA.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB), note: World Bank staff estimates based on age/sex distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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